Schopenhauer advocated asceticism

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Feb. 22, 2013

Arthur Schopenhauer

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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter ? with which it is foolish to be stingy." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says that Arthur Schopenhauer was among the first of the 19th-century philosophers to pose that essentially the universe is not a rational place, as he wrote in his doctoral thesis, "The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient ...